“And so escape and love became intertwined, and from this grew a sense of not knowing, ignoring, pretending not to know... Anything I felt – grief, depression, shock, anger – I simply starved it away or exercised or drank too much wine or slept. I simply would not know. It was something I learned as a child that had somehow carried me into adulthood. Until it would no longer carry me. Until I learned to look deep into the face of whatever it was, and what I found was this: it didn’t kill me.”
